Colchester Hygiene Ratings: Long Wyre Street Shop Rated 1

108 of the 118 food businesses in the Colchester City Council area inspected in September were given the top food hygiene rating of 5. That is just over nine in ten. One business was rated 1, “major improvement necessary”, and no one was rated 0.

The figures come from the Food Standards Agency register, read in full on 2 November. They cover every rating on the register with an inspection date in September 2026. (Food Standards Agency ratings)

The rating of 1

The register lists 222 Coffee Shop at Cremaaa, 14-16 Long Wyre Street, CO1 1LH, as “other catering premises”. Colchester City Council’s inspectors rated it 1 on 16 September 2026. (Food Standards Agency, 222 Coffee Shop)

The register also gives the marks in the three areas inspectors check. Lower is better: 0 means no problems, and the worst possible marks are 25 for the first two and 30 for management. At 222 Coffee Shop they were:

• 20 for hygienic food handling
• 20 for the condition of the premises
• 10 for confidence in management

The register does not say what the inspectors found. The inspection report can be requested from the council. When we checked on 2 November the register showed no right to reply from the business and no re-rating pending.

The other ratings below 5

Nine more September ratings were below 5:

A 3 means “generally satisfactory” and a 4 means “good”. Tiptree is about nine miles south-west of the city centre.

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Where to eat: September’s 5s

The 108 top ratings went to 46 restaurants, cafes and canteens, 15 takeaways, 9 pubs and bars, 8 school kitchens, 5 care homes and nurseries, and a range of shops, hotels and caterers. These are the restaurants, cafes, takeaways and pubs with a published address:

Colchester

• Bambu Vietnamese, 95 Quayside Drive
• Bar B Q House, 45 North Station Road
• China Garden, 21 Bromley Road
• Cuckoo Dough, 12 Short Wyre Street
• G.Neko, 94 Military Road
• Greenstead Fish & Chips, Five Fields Court, Hawthorn Avenue
• Jenkins cafe & restaurant, 42 St Johns Street
• Kings Arms, 61-63 Crouch Street West
• Knight Pavilion Restaurant, The Maltings, Haven Road
• Love Thy Burger, Fry Society, 58 High Street
• North Hill Noodle Bar, 2 North Hill
• Peking Palace, 356 Harwich Road
• Santorini greek food, 35 St Botolphs Street
• Shrub End Take Away, The Square, Iceni Way
• SI5 Spy Missions Ltd, 1 Long Wyre Street
• Smashed, 22 Middleborough
• Southern Fried Chicken, 37A St Botolphs Street
• The Britannia Gurkha Restaurant and Bar, 42 Meyrick Crescent
• The Coffee Corner, The Colchester Centre, Hawkins Road
• The Eat Inn Diner, 6 Grange Way
• The Foresters Arms, 1-2 Castle Road
• The Goat and Boot, 70 East Hill
• The little cafe, 28A Military Road
• The Officers Club, Londinium Road
• The Paddock Cafe, 2 Autoway
• The Passage House, 2 Bank Passage
• The Playhouse, 4-8 St Johns Street
• The Rovers Tye, Ipswich Road
• The Starlight Tea Chapel, The Dissenters Chapel, Cemetery, Mersea Road
• Three Wise Monkeys, 60 High Street
• Tins Super Kitchen, 31 Mile End Road
• Victoria Inn, 10 North Station Road
• Wan Fung House, 30-32 North Station Road
• Wei’s Kitchen, 10 North Hill
• Wendy’s, 19 High Street
• Wink Lee, 197 Harwich Road
• Yak and Yeti Colchester, 101 High Street

West Mersea

• China Kitchen, 13A High Street
• Seaview Cafe, West Mersea Holiday Park, Seaview Avenue
• St Helena Shop & Cafe, 47 Kingsland Road
• The Art Cafe, 2 Coast Road
• The Mersea Deli, 42 High Street
• The Victory, 92 Coast Road
• The Wheatsheaf Social Club, Waldegraves Farm Holiday Park, Waldegraves Lane
• Valeries Tea Room, 14 Church Road
• Waterfront Pizza, 110 Coast Road

Wivenhoe

• Serendipity Cakes and Catering, 6 Brook House, Brook Street
• The Olive Branch, 1A Station Road
• Trinity Patisserie, 11-13 High Street
• Wivenhoe Cafe & Gallery, East Street

Villages

• Dedham Vale Vineyard, Green Lane, Boxted
• The Whalebone, Chapel Road, Fingringhoe
• Shoulder of Mutton Tea Room, Halstead Road, Fordham
• Rowhedge Coastal Rowing Club, Lion Quay, High Street, Rowhedge
• Ye Olde Albion, 29 High Street, Rowhedge
• Stanway Rovers Community Football Club, New Farm Road, Stanway
• The Swan, 285 London Road, Stanway
• Queens Tandoori, Queens Head, Queens Road, West Bergholt

October so far

Thirty ratings dated October are on the register so far, the latest from 22 October. Twenty-nine are 5s, including Preto and The Sushi Co on the High Street, Boudica Gate Restaurant on Trinity Street, The Rose and Crown Hotel on East Street, The Alma at Copford Green and The Thatchers Arms at Mount Bures.

One is a 2, “improvement necessary”: Aburi Japanese Restaurant, 19 Short Wyre Street, rated on 22 October. The register gives no breakdown of its scores, no right to reply and no re-rating pending. (Food Standards Agency, Aburi Japanese Restaurant)

More October ratings will be added in the coming weeks. Ratings reach the public register some time after the inspection, while the business has time to appeal.

What it means for you

• Check before you go. Every business’s current rating is on the FSA website, and most show a sticker in the window or door.
• A rating is a snapshot of conditions on the day of the inspection. A business with a low rating can ask for a re-inspection once it has made improvements, can appeal, and can publish a right to reply on the register.
• To report a problem with a food business in the city area, contact Colchester City Council’s environmental health team through the council’s website.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating register for the Colchester City Council area, all 1,649 entries read through the FSA’s open data API on 2 November 2026, for every rating, date, address and score above. Each business links to its own register page.